E-news is Back with the 2015 Hunger Walk, Our New Building and a Summer Full of Fun

In This Issue: Register for Hunger Walk - Capital Campaign Update - Test Your Lakeview Pantry Knowledge! - State of the Pantry Update - New YLB Officers - Upcoming Events -

High Schoolers Tweet for LVP - SNAP cuts - Hunger in the News

Register for Hunger Walk 2015

Walk with Us and Help Us Feed Our Neighbors!

Registration is now open to join Lakeview Pantry for the 30th annual Hunger Walk on June 20 at Soldier Field. This is a great event for all ages, and we hope to make this year our strongest showing ever! Everyone who walks on behalf of Lakeview Pantry earns us $12 in credit at the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

To sign up, you'll need to both register as a walker and join our team. Registration secures your admission for the event. Joining our team ensures you get counted for walking with Lakeview Pantry. And if you can't join us, but would still like to support Lakeview Pantry, consider making a donation! Click here for more information or get started using the buttons below.


Thanks to YOU Our Capital Campaign Nears Goal A little more than 2 years ago, we launched a Capital Campaign to purchase our first permanent home. Thanks to the generosity of our friends and neighbors, we have raised 88 percent of the $3.3 million we needed for this project. Read more about our Capital Campaign and view artist renderings of the proposed design for the interior here.	How Much Do You Know about Lakeview Pantry? April 10 marked Lakeview Pantry's 45th anniversary of providing food for today, hope for tomorrow to our neighbors in need. Are you a trivia buff? Think you know all there is to know about the Pantry? Test your knowledge with this quiz about Lakeview Pantry's past, present, and future!


State of the Pantry Update Wondering what's new at Lakeview Pantry? From the purchase of our first, permanent home in January to our continued success providing both food and social services for our clients, check out the State of the Pantry update for a full report of our work as of March 31. And look for the April update on our website at lakeviewpantry.org soon!	Meet Our New YLB Officers At their March meeting, the Lakeview Pantry Young Leaders Board elected their executive committee for the 2015-2016 Fiscal Year: President James Gignac VP of Volunteerism Derek Meade VP Fundraising Brent Sigg VP of Membership Mike Anderson	Mark Your Calendars for these Upcoming Dates May 23 & 25: Lakeview Pantry closed for Memorial Day Weekend May 29: Food Tasting and Nutrition Hour at East Site June 8: HAMbingo at Hamburger Mary's June 9: Cravings on Clark June 12-14: Ribfest See more events...


Will Tweet for Food: High Schoolers Give Back to Lakeview Pantry For the month of April, students at Curie High School in the Archer Heights neighborhood of Chicago have taken to Twitter and Facebook to raise awareness about hunger and to inspire others to take action by donating food to Lakeview Pantry. Read more.	Changes Are in Store for SNAP in Illinois If you've been watching the news, you've likely heard the controversy surrounding proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program both in Illinois and at the federal level. What will this mean for our neighbors in Lakeview? How can Lakeview Pantry help? Read more.	Hunger and Poverty in the News A Bunch of Kids Learn the Truth about Child Hunger from Buzzfeed Ending Poverty and Hunger: How Much Do You Know? from The Guardian Lakeview Pantry Buys Permanent Home from Crain's Chicago Business

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